MORE GROWTH STATEWIDE FOR BUSTANG

The Colorado Department of Transportation’s statewide Bustang service has posted another quarter of strong ridership growth, with a nearly 25 percent jump between July and November compared with the same period last year.

Those gains come on top of a 52 percent increase in riders this year on the service’s two-year anniversary and an increase of nearly 15,000 riders, or 77 percent, on Bustang’s West Line, which runs from Denver to Glenwood Springs.

Since then, more than 12,000 riders have taken the West Line and nearly 67,000 riders system-wide. The other two Bustang lines connect Denver to Colorado Springs and Fort Collins.

The Vail Daily reports CDOT is looking to expand the service, including a possible Frisco-toSteamboat Springs route.

CDOT spokesman Bob Wilson said, “We’re going to be expanding all three at some point to the west in Grand Junction, to the north in Greeley and to the south in Pueblo … probably in 2018 or early 2019.”

Driver dies in crash involving truck.

BOULDER

A driver of a passenger vehicle died Wednesday afternoon in Superior in a traffic crash involving a semi-truck.

The crash happened about 3:25 p.m. on Colorado 128 between McCaslin Boulevard and Colorado 93, according to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.

The male driver, who was not identified, died at the scene, the sheriff’s office said.

Gunman gets life sentence for fatal shooting in Adams County hotel parking lot.

ADAMS

A man convicted of a fatal shooting in a motel parking lot in Adams County was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

Jose Alfredo Ocampo, 39, who was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder in October, was sentenced by Adams County District Judge Don Quick, according to the district attorney’s office.

Ocampo fatally shot Michael House, 29, on May 4, 2016, in the parking lot of the Super 8 Motel at 5888 Broadway.

Ocampo fired multiple shots at House from a vehicle after the two had argued.

Kenneth Bastidos, 31, who was driving the Jeep from which Ocampo fired the fatal shots, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 22.

Former Westminster High School teacher sentenced to seven years for sex assault of student.

COUNTY» A former ADAMS

Westminster High School teacher has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sex assault of a child.

Benjamin Forbes was sentenced Wednesday in Adams County after pleading guilty earlier to one count of attempted firstdegree assault and attempted sexual assault on a child, according to the district attorney’s office. Both counts are felonies.

Forbes, a math teacher and soccer coach at the school, had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student from August to December 2016, according to the district attorney’s office. He was arrested and charged in December.

Forbes was sentenced by Adams County District Judge Sharon Holbrook.